"Analogies and comparisons are good! I like them, you can use them to explain things."
Look around.
"So, is your dad... like, do you spend time with him?"
"Mum, we left the entire country over people being horrid about blood status, and if anyone thinks I'm a bigot I can just mention you, and I haven't been lying!"
She blinks slowly. "I had kind of assumed he was just not very present because of... reasons," she says, eloquently.
Renée shakes her head.
Laura does not really react. Apparently Sadde has explained the things to her.
"I didn't know, and I wanted to know before it got rumored around the entire school the way things sometimes are. And I know at least a couple people have been assuming my dad is a dead wizard."
"Language!" Laura admonishes.
"Wasn't he?"
Laura just sighs.
"I'm not ashamed of him! That's not what I said!"
Sadde looks between them again. She's not sure whether she should say anything so better not. Probably.
"And he'll say that he's glad I'm keeping safe," says Miranda stubbornly.
"We'll see."
"For what it's worth, I understand what she's saying," Sadde tells Renée tentatively.
"You went to school years before we did," Miranda adds to Renée. "And you noticed things were bad in regular wix society but you went to school the first year after Harry Potter was born and that was years ago and it's different and I'm not being horrible just for the sake of it."
"People are pretty nasty there about muggles. Slytherins are, anyway, and even some non-Slytherins. I got jinxed and punched and thrown against a wall on my first week."
Does she mention she provoked a lot of that on purpose? No she does not.
"There are stuck-up people in every house and I hang out with a Slytherin and we mix during classes," Miranda says.
"I understand. I'll tell him Boxing Day."
After everyone is back at Hogwarts, Miranda may be seen sitting in the library with Karen. Karen is doing her Charms homework. Miranda is reading one of her Christmas books for a change: A History of Magical Justice.
She doesn't look happy with its contents.